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Two Upcoming Releases

Wayne Horvitz will be releasing two new albums in the coming months. Those Who Remain: Concerto for Orchestra and Improvising Soloist will be paired with Horvitz’s fourth string quartet, These Hills of Glory on a new…...

Those Who Remain is a new generative and modular work to be presented in two parts. Part II: Concerto for Installation and Improviser The second module of Those Who Remain is a multidisciplinary collaboration between…...

On Friday, December 2nd, Nonsequitur presents Factotum, an evening of compositions by Wayne Horvitz at the Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center. Part I: Factotum: Music of Work and Place – For Piano and…...

"This music, as it was on his 2015 release, is pure Horvitz magic, but the harmonic sparseness commingled with sudden sharp melodic rises feels similar to the way the Absaroka Mountains suddenly shoot up from a vast range of farmland, dusted with snow."

The Best Jazz on Bandcamp October 2018

“Wayne Horvitz...has had such an impact on extemporaneous music since the early ‘80s...”

Keyboard Magazine

"Like all the best art, The Snowghost Sessions improves with each listen, vying hard for the top spot on year-end lists that will be rampant before we know it. Kudos to Horvitz, Harper, and Eagle, and to Songlines Recordings for this gift."

InOnTheCorner.com

"Horvitz evinces a very individual appreciation of rhythm, particularly the ability to govern dynamic tension via its manipulation.”

The Wire UK

“There's nobody else out there I hear even attempting to cover some kind of similar range... untethered to form, a sponge for inspiration and recreation, a spirit unabashedly unwilling to stop.”

AllAboutJazz.com

He has [d] an evened-out, coherent composing voice that contains [ed] bebop and rock, gospel hymns and country, free jazz and funk and midcentury film music and Charles Ives. There is [was] very little posturing or provocation or wackiness in it.”

The New York Times

"...a dazzling sonic playground full of some wild rides...stretches the art of sound collage into new frontiers.”